“ Even to day is my complaint bitter: my strokea is heavier than my groaning. ”
Even to-day - At the present time. I am not relieved. You afford me no consolation. All that you say only aggravates my woes. My complaint - See the notes at Job 21:3 . Bitter - Sad, mel...
Even to day [is] my complaint (a) bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. (a) He shows the just cause of his complaining and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, ( Job 2...
Job still rebels, though he does his best to repress his complaints ( Job 23:2 ). Translate as mg. Job 23:6 f. shows the gain Job has got. Job 23:8-12 . He is still in quest of God, but now i...
complaint . complaining. my. Septuagint and Syriac read "His". stroke . hand. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the calamity occasioned by it. Compare Job 13:21 ; Job...
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Even to-day is my complaint bitter - Job goes on to maintain his own innocence, and shows that he has derived neither conv...
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Today - implying, perhaps that the debate was carried on through more days than one (see 'Introduction'). Bitter...
Job's Seventh Speech (Job 23, 24) Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God's dealings with himself ( Job 23 ), and with mankind (...
Even to day. — Or, Still is my complaint bitter or accounted rebellion; yet is my stroke heavier than my groaning: my complaint is no just measure of my suffering.
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...
“He Knoweth the Way That I Take” Job 23:1-17 This chapter is threaded by a sublime faith. Job admitted that his complaint seemed rebellious, but God's hand had been heavy on him. From the misun...
In answer to Eliphaz, ob took no notice of the terrible charges made against him. That is postponed to a later speech. Rather, he discussed Eliphai conception of his view of God as being absent from...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. (3) Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! (4) I w...
Even today [is] my complaint bitter ,.... Job's afflictions were continued on him long; he was made to possess months of vanity; and, as he had been complaining ever since they were upon him, he sti...
Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Ver. 2. Even today is my complaint bitter ] q.d. After all mine endeavour to satisfy you, I am still misinterpreted,...
Even to-day is my complaint bitter Even at this time notwithstanding all your promises and pretended consolations. For your discourses give me neither relief nor satisfaction. Hence in this and the...
HE LONGS TO LAY HIS CASE BEFORE GOD (vv.1-9) What Eliphaz has said to Job was hardly worth an answer, so that Job practically ignores this and lays before his friends the actual distresses that...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz; Job Appeals from Man to God. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answere...
i.e. Even at this time, notwithstanding all your promises and pretended consolations, I find no ease or satisfaction in all your discourses; and therefore in this and the following Chapter s Job seld...
JOB’S THIRD REPLY TO ELIPHAZ Ceases directly to address his friends. His present speech rather a soliloquy. Takes no notice of the charges laid against him by Eliphaz. Laments the want of access...
Always remember, dear friends, that one of the great lessons of the Book of Job is this, that we may never judge a man's character by his condition. The best of men may have the most of suffering and...
Job 23:3 . Oh that I knew where I might find him. Job sighs for the favours conferred on certain patriarchs, whom God had met. The living oracle was with Noah after the flood; it was with Abraham...
Oh, that I knew where I might find Him. The cry for restored relations with God The language of the text is exclusively that of men on the earth,--although it also characterises the state and f...
EXPOSITION Verses 1-24:25 Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-two verses. He begins by justifying the vehemence o...
Job Desires a Judicial Decision of God
Job 10:1 ; Job 11:6 ; Job 6:2 ; Lamentations 3:19 ; Lamentations 3:20 ; Psalms 77:2-9
Job Challenged by Satan Job 1:1 - Job 23:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin today a series of studies on one of the most interesting characters of the Bible. He is Job, the man of patience....
To — day — Even at this time, notwithstanding all your pretended consolations. Stroke — The hand or stroke of God upon me. Groaning — Doth exceed my complaints.